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**Overview**
====The Forest Hills School District is looking for teachers who are interested in exploring the idea of redesigning the learning environment in ways that enhance the educational experience and better prepare students for the 21st Century. The purpose of this project is to provide district staff with a deeper understanding of how teaching and learning are impacted when students have increased access to technology. All teachers, grades 9-12, are invited to submit a proposal for “Re-imagining the 21st Century Classroom,” a research project providing selected teachers with the opportunity to spend the 2009-2010 school year understanding and negotiating the relationships between teaching, learning and technology. One or two teachers from each high school will be selected to participate; those participants will be provided with a set of 15 or 30 netbooks, depending on the number of proposals selected, to be used in their classroom.====

**Goals**
====The 21st Century classroom is active, engaging, student-centered, collaborative and harnesses technological tools to support learning. Understanding how to use these tools is just the beginning, however; educators must also understand how to use the tools to effectively impact learning, as well as promote global collaboration. Proposals will seek to answer the question, “How does access to the tools of technology affect your teaching practice and ultimately, student learning?” We are looking for proposals to meet the following goals:====


 * ====create a student-centered classroom.====
 * ====enhance curriculum and instruction with technology.====
 * ====promote the acquisition of 21st Century skills among our students. These skills include:====
 * ====an improved knowledge of global cultures and societies.====
 * ====critical thinking, problem solving skills, and the ability to innovate.====
 * ====information literacy, including finding, filtering, evaluating, synthesizing, and drawing conclusions from information.====
 * ====the ability to work with others as a team.====
 * ====increase access to technology for students at school.====
 * ====support the teaching and learning of Ohio’s Technology Academic Content Standards.====